The debate on the impact of the information and communication technologies (ICT) on contemporary democracy has lasted in political science since the beginning of the information revolution. Two dominating and antagonistic standpoints present the electronic democracy as either the cure for democracy crisis, or the factor deepening major problems of democracy. The text questions such a simplified...

This paper looks at some recent developments in the official diagnostic definitions (DSM-5) and in the research domain. The spectrum concept of mood disorders consists of the components of depression and mania, alone or in combination, on a continuum. Its international operational classification changes regularly, being based on symptoms, their duration and consequences. Causation is as yet unk...

At the outset of the golden era of cartography, fifteenth-century Europeans drew the earth as they wished it to be. Some maps were so fanciful as to show four continents like petals centered around Jerusalem. It would take a century of adventurers, navigators, mathematicians, and artists to align the map with the actual places where the rocks met the seas. In this effort, there were many lost v...

ANAPLASMOSIS was probably introduced into the United States by the Spaniards at the same time that splenic or cattle tick fever entered this country (IS),^ The disease, which is not transmissible to man, chiefly affects cattle, although the antelope, black wildebeest, blesbok, buffalo, camel, deer, duiker, elk, goat, and sheep are reported to be susceptible. Mature cattle are more subject to in...

The closure in mid-2001 by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) of its experimental tabloid newspaper, Project Eyeball, after less than 1 year of publication, was popularly attributed to a pair of market factors: its 80-cent cover price and competition from a pair of free tabloids that entered the market hot on its heels. Although pricing and competition were doubtless important contributing factors ...

In the 1990s in the UK, the problem of student plagiarism was addressed by telling students they must not do it, then by dealing with the small number who did not comply. Policies and institutional procedures drafted before 2000, designed to cope with this relatively straightforward situation, often did not define what was meant by plagiarism (Stefani and Carroll, 2001) or state how offenders w...

Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5580, 4555 Overlook Ave SW, Washington, DC 20375. Email: [email protected] Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology, which allows computer-generated graphical information to be correlated with a person’s view of the real world (see Figure 1). These graphics can be placed in three positions relative to the real world: (1) in front of the view of the real world,...

pondents are invited to offer any " clinical remarks" they may have to make bearing on the subject. I therefore venture to hope that the few following remarks may prove acceptable to your readers. The facts of the case as related are as follows :? Mrs. S. a young woman of 29 years of age, of a fair complexion and previous good health, meets with a fright on the 10th June while driving in her gh...

This paper presents the ongoing efforts to further develop the ELPUB digital library, which highly supported the dissemination of published materials within the community in the past years. elpub.scix.net has been serving the ELPUB-community since a decade, predominantly aiming to archive the output of the annual conferences. Doubtless, there is still a need for a platform to maintain the “coll...

Glycerin has been employed for a number of years for the conservation of vaccine virus t and other materials of similar nature, e. g., the virus of rabies, clavele, rinderpest, and foot and mouth disease. Its preservative properties for animal and vegetable tissues are also well recognized. It has, however, been employed more as a diluent, particularly in the case of bovine virus, than because ...